Lab Escape vs Fly Trapper!
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Lab Escape
Control a captured specimen that must consume meat to grow stronger. Choose random mutations to enhance your abilities and devour enemies in this rogue-like running game. Collect hats to further boost your specimen's power.
- Consume meat to grow
- Select random mutations
- Devour enemies
- Rogue-like gameplay
- Stackable mutation cards
- Collect hats for bonuses
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Welcome, little specimen! You're the unstable... thingy captured by scientist. Consume meats, select random Mutations, and Devour all bad guys in your sight! Every time you gain meat, you can select mutations to make your specimen stronger. Rogue-like style running game with dynamic mutation features. Every mutation cards can stack up to 3 times for better effects. Collect Set of hats to enhance your specimen.
Fly Trapper!
Evolve by consuming bugs and hazmats in a botanic lab. Beware of harmful insects and upgrade your abilities to consume them all. Navigate the lab and grow stronger.
- Eat bugs and hazmats to evolve
- Conquer the botanic lab
- Beware of harmful bugs
- Upgrade to eat multiple bugs
- Progressive evolution mechanics
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- Eat bugs and hazmats to EVOLVE! - Conquer the botanic lab! - Some bugs can hurt you, be carfeul! - Upgrade yourself to eat them all in once!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Lab Escape at 4.8 against Fly Trapper!'s 3.0. Lab Escape also leads on ratings volume (164 vs 5) and review sentiment (94% vs 75%). Fly Trapper!'s advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 5) and update cadence (fortnightly vs every 5 months). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Lab Escape sells 5 one-off in-app purchases. Fly Trapper! asks for nothing beyond the download.
Lab Escape holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Lab Escape has 164 ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 94% of Lab Escape's written reviews are positive against 75% of Fly Trapper!'s.
Lab Escape ships an update every 5 months, Fly Trapper! fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 8, 2026 and September 15, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Lab Escape | Fly Trapper! |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (164 ratings) — better | 3.0 (5 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 93.8% of reviews — better | 75.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 164 — better | 5 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Ad-supported — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 72 MB | 112 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 12+ |
| Developer | SeHyeon Im | Any Games OU |
Customer experience
Lab Escape
Fly Trapper!
Bugs and requests
Lab Escape
Reported bugs
8 issues- Boxes for hats not working
- Ads causing game crashes
- Screen resolution not fitting iPhone X+
- Lag at high scores (11700+ points)
- FPS drops at high scores (23000+ points)
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- Exceeded limit of 20 boxes glitch
- Right bottom button not registering on some phones
- Game stutters on iPhone 7 with 5000m+ distance
Requested features
8 requests- More boxes/hats drop rate
- Unlockable specimens with different skills
- Potions for speed/damage reduction
- Adjustable skill button position
- More frequent ad opportunities for boxes
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- Fix for purchased items not restoring
- More skills beyond just getting bigger
- iPad Pro version
Fly Trapper!
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Lab Escape
- Tiny Supply$0.99
- Supply Bundle$1.99
- AD Devourer$1.99
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- Supply Tower$3.99
- Planetary Supply$7.99
Fly Trapper!
No in-app purchases
